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How To Write Shop | News Anne McCaffrey Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011)[1][2] was an American-born Irish writer, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. Early in McCaffrey's 46-year career as a writer, she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction.[3][4] She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006.[5][6][7] Life and career[edit] In 1950 she married Horace Wright Johnson (died 2009),[13] who shared her interests in music, opera and ballet. Except for a short time in Düsseldorf, the family lived for most of a decade in Wilmington, Delaware. Writer[edit] McCaffrey had had two short stories published during the 1950s.

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